Show HN: Shelvy Books

46 pointsposted 2 days ago
by tekkie00

17 Comments

sanufar

a day ago

Wow, the shelf UI is a real throwback to the old iBooks shelf design! Looks great. +1 on the bounding box issue, it takes me out of the flow when accidentally triggering a book below the current shelf.

tekkie00

a day ago

Thank you! Amazing feedback, will fix the bounding box issue :)

snitty

a day ago

I miss Delicious Monster's Library app

fmajid

20 hours ago

Why? It still works for me.

fifferfaffer

a day ago

Cool! I used to use goodreads and have been looking for another way to organize my digital bookshelf.

Some UI/UX feedback since you mentioned it:

- The bounding box for the books is large enough that I can trigger the popup of a book on shelf row-1 from current row.

nezaj

a day ago

Love this. +1 for the Goodreads import! I think it will make it easier for people to try!

Adding a link to buy the books on bookshop in addition to Amazon could be a nice touch too to support local bookstores

sam537

a day ago

I have completely lost track of what I have read and my thoughts. I really should journal. That being said as somebody else mentioned this is very pleasing to the eye. The UI with no ads and no buy buttons is so refreshing. I see that some of the covers are from specific editions. Any way to change those? Where are they coming from? I will give it a try and add a few books and see. Good job!

sacul

a day ago

Very nice! Care to share more technical details? Like others, I'd be curious to know how you're fetching the book covers.

Personally, I dislike skeuomorphic design in digital interfaces. But still... very cool!

pizzamiheart

a day ago

Looks fun! Just signed up.

Can you add date read or like a date range you read it, or even just completed date?

And are comments like notes for the person adding them or are they social, visible to others?

Can you import from existing book list services (StoryGraph, Goodreads, etc)? If not then the friction to use this will be quite high for people with established collections.

batica81

a day ago

Looks nice, imported goodreads no problem. Ai recommendation fails with unauthorized :(

Meleagris

a day ago

Out of curiosity. Where does the metadata for the books come from?

voisin

a day ago

Is it possible to import Goodreads history?

tekkie00

a day ago

Unfortunately, Goodreads disabled their API. However, Shelby can natively import a Gooreads CSV export! Hope you can give it a try.